Hi Folks,
I'd like to do a comparison on how slow New Zealand broadband really is compared to other parts of the world. Coz' I feel (and others in NZ) that New Zealand is a whole generation behind in the Internet Speed Game.

If you could please layout results like this (using speedtests' forum link):

[Edit: Data speed Shaped after 12GB, but no extra charges for blowing the cap]

I consider it reasonably fast compared to the ADSL plans here, but there are indeed cable "extreme" and ADSL2+ plans available here for extra cash. If you don't have those available, then yes, probably your assumption of a generation behind us might be right. But not by much, they only the faster plans late last year / early this year I think."Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

According to the Summary tab on SpeedTest, mine is faster than 96% of connections globally. My average is 9863 KB/s downloads and 1199 KB/s uploads (all done on North American servers). It helps that I'm in an area that Comcast uses to test new high-speed broadband technologies. Sometimes it doesn't help though - some of the servers in Canada only give me around 5,000 KB/s downloads.

The first one I'm really impressed with as my service is supposed to be 10Mb max!
Unlimited with no cap apparently, but a fair use policy is supposed to apply!

Hope this helps your research!

<edit> Virgin Media is a UK cable company, and has a 20Mb service running. They are trialling a 50Mb service.</edit>

regards, Gizbar.

Hi Gizbar, and everybody else!

Thank you all so far! I pay NZ$40.00 per mo. for my connection, which is roughly $24.00 U.S.

Right now... after reading the results... I'm not very happy with my connection. But it is one of the fastest in my country!
I live in Wellington, NZ, so that is the best server you can use if you want results of my area.